Bonds Homer Reaction

[both-teams-played-hard]

Re: Bonds Homer Reaction

Warren,

Pollock was all the rave during the abstract expressionism movement (and has remained pretty famous in the art world). I never cared for his work that much, but some others, such as Willem de Kooning, produced some pretty thoughtful work. I think people liked Pollock as much for his technique as his product, as he would literally fling paint across a huge canvas as it lay on the floor, and the result was a seemingly random spattering of various paint colors (hence the joking reference made in this thread). Somewhere around here I've got a couple of photos of him in action, if anyone cares (though I doubt anyone does). I could never make much (meaningful) sense of his pieces.

Best,
Reid

Reid
You should know that I have a dry sense of humor! "Who the F**k is Jackson Pollack?" is the title of a documentary about a lady who found a supposed, unknown Pollack at a thrift store for $5.
Scroll down on the Pollack wikipage for the link.
Now do you see how funny I think I am?

Warren

Who the f**k is Norman Rockwell?
Reid-Go ahead and post the "in-action" photos of Pollack..Do you feel bad about hiijacking a Barry Bonds tribute thread?

[David]

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I wish to rephrase the professor, saying "If you don't know what you were taking, how do you know you didn't take sustance X. The only way you could know you didn't take substance X is you know what you were taken."

My point being is that the only way Bonds can say "I know I never used steroids" is if he knows what he was taking. But he also says he didn't know what he was taking. Obviously there is a inherent logical conflict between the two Bonds' stores, and it's impossible for them both to be true. How can you know if you don't know? The answer is, you can't know if you don't know, so don't say you know.

[both-teams-played-hard]

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Somewhere around here I've got a couple of photos of him in action, if anyone cares (though I doubt anyone does).

*super rare high number, single-printed.

[sportscentury]

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Warren,

Thanks - unfortunately I'm only half-reading many of these posts/threads due to too much going on here ... Eric emailed me about this and I still missed the reference. What can I say?

I don't feel bad about hijacking this thread (though it was not my intention ... besides you are the one who threw me off!). Actually, these posts are far more polite than how they would read if I expressed what I thought and felt when I watched Barry hit the "record-breaking" homerun. My favorite quote was during the press conference when Barry said "This record is not tainted at all, not in the slightest" or something to that effect. Ummm, what?!?! What color is the sky in his world? Oh yeah... it's green.

By the way, yes, I now completely understand how funny you think you are. Actually, as you know, I've gotten many good laughs out of your posts. Good stuff.

Best,
Reid

[allstarsplus]

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I think the biggest hero of the night has to be Mike Bascik. If anyone saw his on air interview immediately after the at bat and his press conference after the game, you would have been truly impressed with his 100% professional demeanor. He was so happy you'd have thought that he hit the homer himself. He stood head and shoulders above what anyone expected of a pitcher in that situation.

GO NATS!

Steiner is doing a signing with Mike Bascik today.

Andrew

[allstarsplus]

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Steiner is doing a signing with Mike Bascik today.

Andrew

Footnote to this previous post that the Steiner signing got cancelled.

I was at the Nationals game last night and witnessed one of the largest pre-game crowds in Washington trying to get Mike Bacsik to sign autographs. Mike signed anything anyone wanted for about 10 minutes. The local CBS and NBC affiliates were doing pre-game interviews also as the Nats signed their other #1 pick Josh Smoker (Smoker also signed auto's).

I hadn't read my email from Steiner yesterday afternon saying the Bacsis signing was cancelled so I asked Mike how the signing went in the morning with Steiner, and he said it was cancelled and he is doing a signing on Saturday with "Mounted" and is also considering doing a signing with BarryBonds.com

Outside of Washington, not too many people ever heard of Mike Bacsik before the 756 HR, and some probably couldn't care less now, but this new found fame is amazing to witness.

Andrew